Mick Parsons (who has also published under the name dirtysacred) is the author of the poetry collections, a treatise on unseen stars (2025), Growl & Mud (2024) 92 Tanka, (2021, Basement Books.) and the chapbook God’s Tired Plumbers (2020). His work will or has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Impspired, Moon City Review, Cajun Mutt Press, Unavoidable Disaster, Contemporary Haibun Online, Thimble Literary Magazine, Poetry Flash, The New Southerner, Pegasus, Antique Children, The Smoking Poet, The Dispatch LitaReview, The American Mythville Review, The Licking River Review, Inscape, and on semantikon.com. He also is the author of two other poetry collections, several other chapbooks, a collection of short stories, and a novella. He’s organized open mics and readings all over the Midwest. He publishes new work often on Instagram (@rivercitymick). He lives in Louisville, Kentucky.